My Life as a Cartoon #3 – 404 Special #1
Posted 28 Jun 2009 - 3 Gratefully received comments
My Life as a Cartoon #2
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DF Poster Competition Winner
Posted 18 Jun 2009 - 5 Gratefully received comments
The result of the Design Forums poster competition was announced today, and I was delighted to find out that one of my designs was chosen as the winner.
Book Group Online – Bookmarks
Posted 18 Jun 2009 - No Comments - leave yours now!
Book Group Online is a great forum website where you can talk about books, and anything else, with fellow bookworms. These bookmarks are designed to help spread the word about this fantastic online community, so that it can keep growing.
BGO members have been leaving them in returned library books, sending them away with books they have sold over the internet, or just leaving them in libraries and book shops (with permission), to help spread the word. The more contributors there are the better the site becomes.
Each of these bookmarks is available to download for free.
Click the title link that appears above your favourite bookmark to begin the download. The file is a pdf containing an A4 sheet with 5 copies of that particular bookmark ready to be printed and cut out.
Spread the word, keep BGO alive!
Alive and V-Dubbin’ 2009 T-Shirt
Posted 14 Jun 2009 - 4 Gratefully received comments
A local VW enthusiasts club called the “Suffolk Bug’rs” has staged their first big open event this weekend, it’s called “Alive and V-Dubbin’ 2009”
I was asked to design the event t-shirt. The full back design had to include an illustration of the three main vehicles that would feature in the show, the Beetle, the split screen camper and the bay window van.
I went for a mixture of American roadside diner, and Hawaiian spirit icons to make up the design in support of the vehicle illustrations.
Full Back Illustration:
Full Front Illustration:
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DF Poster Competition
Posted 14 Jun 2009 - No Comments - leave yours now!
Design Forums have been running their first competition.
BRIEF:
Film Poster for the new Quentin Tarantino film remake of Terrence Malick’s classic film ‘Badlands’. Badlands is the modern dramatization of the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of the 1950′s, in which a teenage girl and her twenty-something boyfriend slaughtered her entire family and several others in the Dakota badlands.
Quentin will direct his homage to Malik’s classic in his own style, bringing the timeline up to America 2008. Music by the Kings of Leon and the Killers. It will be an 18 certificate.
Here are my entries.
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Design Forums
Posted 14 Jun 2009 - 2 Gratefully received comments
A big part of design and any creative job is the generation of ideas and then developing them through showing others for their thoughts and criticism.
In the past I have fallen in the trap of seclusion. I’ve mostly worked in small companies where I have been the only “creative,” so the back and forth of a design crit can become stilted and difficult, especially if you are showing concepts to the same people day in day out.
In this situation, I realised I might fall into the trap of thinking my initial ideas might not have to be pushed further, or I ‘d pushed them as far as I could. However, I saw the danger in this and decided I needed to find other people that might be in a similar situation to me, or at least be open to discuss their own work. I believed without this kind of interaction I would begin to find the whole design process more of a struggle than it needed to be.
This was all particularly pertinent as I was developing my new identity and website concepts at the time. Like many other designers I’ve always found doing self-promotional work to be very difficult, so some outside input would be critical if I was to produce a solution that I could be proud of.
With these thoughts flickering in my mind I stumbled across Design Forums. After a little bit of lurking trying to figure out if his was the place I was looking for, I decided to register and get stuck in. After a while I discovered that it was exactly what I needed.
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Who's Ken?
I'm a freelance graphic designer living and working in Suffolk.
I've been using Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign & Quark Xpress since 1999 but I've been using pens, pencils, paper and most importantly my imagination for a lot longer. I'm always looking for new clients to work with and interesting projects to work on.
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